Brian Burch for CatholicVoteAction.org about Stupak’s giving in on abortion: “We were betrayed.”

Moreover, in a call to arms:

Over the next 7 months, we will be preparing for the November elections.

Any politician who supported this bill must pay a price. And that price is ultimately paid at the ballot box.

The backers of this health care bill never gave up. They fought for nearly a year against public opinion, and wore down their opponents until they got what they wanted.

We must resolve to do the same.

Remember what happened last night.

Remember how you feel right now.

November will be here before you know it.

Ouch.

(Thanks to Nicholas Stix for the heads-up on this.)

Here’s my thought for the day: We Illinoisans, we Cook County-ans, we Oak Parkers are complicit in yesterday’s Historic Fiasco.  Our people are in the thick of it: Obama, Axelrod, Emanuel, Durbin, et al.  We make not a pretty sight, from coffees for Obama to Loop hotel fund-raisers, supporting the Left with nickels and dollars because that’s where the action is.  Tsk, tsk.

Not all of us, not all the time, however, and a different game is afoot, as Astute Reader reports from a Southwest Side Tea Party gathering yesterday:

The tea party fundraiser was spirited and friendly. Just down-home neighborhood folks, from different parishes, even a North Sider. Some NRA guys fighting Chicago’s gun law, some firefighters, pro-lifers, vets, one young conservative pro-life candidate named Carl Segvich, who will be running against Mayor Daley’s brother for some office in the 11th District in November. Very nice articulate guy who looks like a young Joe Mantegna.

There was an elderly gentleman there, John Walsh, who is funding two buses from this area to the April 15 Tax Day rally in Daley Plaza. His organization is Americans for Life.

 

The young woman who organized the tea party (with a great team of helpers with food and door prizes) is from my neighborhood — about 10 blocks away! She is great and is getting a bus together for both of Glenn Beck’s events coming up in the summer and has a block of rooms at DC hotels.

 

Have you heard of the book The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party? David Horowitz is one of the authors. A woman had it and let us read the last paragraph — part of the master plan. I’m going to look for it.

 

The spooky stuff is reality with Soros. It says he bought election officials — the position that determines election run-offs — in seven states where the vote would be close in the last election — and that’s how Al Franken won.

 

We all sang God Bless America at the end. (It ran right on time.) I was pumped. It was a 40s-50s spirit.

Dem Dems come up with ‘em, don’t they?

Key House Democrat: “There Are No Rules Here … We Make Them Up As We Go Along”

Charitably, can we chalk that up to being unable to express oneself clearly?  On the other hand . . .

Carter made him a federal judge in 1979.  Two years later he

was charged with accepting a $150,000 bribe in exchange for a lenient sentence and a return of seized assets for 21 counts of racketeering by Frank and Thomas Romano, and of perjury in his testimony about the case. He was acquitted by a jury after his alleged co-conspirator, William Borders, refused to testify in court (resulting in a jail sentence for Borders).

He wasn’t off the hook yet:

In 1988, the Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives took up the case, and Hastings was impeached for bribery and perjury by a vote of 413-3. He was then convicted in 1989 by the United States Senate, becoming the sixth federal judge in the history of the United States to be removed from office by the Senate. The vote on the first article was 69 for and 26 opposed, providing five votes more than the two-thirds of those present that were needed to convict. The first article accused the judge of conspiracy. Conviction on any single article was enough to remove the judge from office. The Senate vote cut across party lines, with U.S. Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont voting to convict his fellow party member, and U.S. Senator Arlen Specter voting to acquit.

It could have been worse for him:

The Senate had the option to forbid Hastings from ever seeking federal office again, but did not do so. Alleged co-conspirator, attorney William Borders went to jail again for refusing to testify in the impeachment proceedings, but was later given a full pardon by President Bill Clinton on his last day in office.

But not for his buddy Borders.

Dem Dems come up with ‘em, don’t they?

Key House Democrat: “There Are No Rules Here … We Make Them Up As We Go Along”

Charitably, can we chalk that up to being unable to express oneself clearly?  On the other hand . . .

Carter made him a federal judge in 1979.  Two years later he

was charged with accepting a $150,000 bribe in exchange for a lenient sentence and a return of seized assets for 21 counts of racketeering by Frank and Thomas Romano, and of perjury in his testimony about the case. He was acquitted by a jury after his alleged co-conspirator, William Borders, refused to testify in court (resulting in a jail sentence for Borders).

He wasn’t off the hook yet:

In 1988, the Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives took up the case, and Hastings was impeached for bribery and perjury by a vote of 413-3. He was then convicted in 1989 by the United States Senate, becoming the sixth federal judge in the history of the United States to be removed from office by the Senate. The vote on the first article was 69 for and 26 opposed, providing five votes more than the two-thirds of those present that were needed to convict. The first article accused the judge of conspiracy. Conviction on any single article was enough to remove the judge from office. The Senate vote cut across party lines, with U.S. Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont voting to convict his fellow party member, and U.S. Senator Arlen Specter voting to acquit.

It could have been worse for him:

The Senate had the option to forbid Hastings from ever seeking federal office again, but did not do so. Alleged co-conspirator, attorney William Borders went to jail again for refusing to testify in the impeachment proceedings, but was later given a full pardon by President Bill Clinton on his last day in office.

But not for his buddy Borders.

News alert has it: Illinois is broken

It’s all about our timeservers in Springfield and Chicago:

What’s going on?

When your strategy is delay-and-deny, you have chosen to be obsolete. Reasonable people want to elbow you aside and make way for problem-solvers. That’s why, in America’s private sector, a generation of managers who confused mastery of the status quo with aggressive response to crises has been shoved into early retirement. Those execs lacked the skills to quickly re-engineer failing businesses. To make unfamiliar, uncomfortable, unpopular decisions. To halt death spirals. Many of those ex-bosses now call themselves “consultants.”

Day by do-little day, the leadership rank in Illinois government looks more like a breeding ground for consultants. An epic challenge has brought not an epic response, but rather a pattern of petrified inaction and bizarre belief that revenue is sure to rebound. Faced with problems largely of their own making, these people merely shift the blame to national economic trends. They behave as though they are helpless. And perhaps they are. We, the voters and taxpayers, are not.

Etc.  See Chi Trib for more more more . . .

News alert has it: Illinois is broken

It’s all about our timeservers in Springfield and Chicago:

What’s going on?

When your strategy is delay-and-deny, you have chosen to be obsolete. Reasonable people want to elbow you aside and make way for problem-solvers. That’s why, in America’s private sector, a generation of managers who confused mastery of the status quo with aggressive response to crises has been shoved into early retirement. Those execs lacked the skills to quickly re-engineer failing businesses. To make unfamiliar, uncomfortable, unpopular decisions. To halt death spirals. Many of those ex-bosses now call themselves “consultants.”

Day by do-little day, the leadership rank in Illinois government looks more like a breeding ground for consultants. An epic challenge has brought not an epic response, but rather a pattern of petrified inaction and bizarre belief that revenue is sure to rebound. Faced with problems largely of their own making, these people merely shift the blame to national economic trends. They behave as though they are helpless. And perhaps they are. We, the voters and taxpayers, are not.

Etc.  See Chi Trib for more more more . . .

In Dreams from My Father, Obama mulls the limitations of democracy and the free market, excerpted by Steve Sailer in America’s Half-Blood Prince: Barack Obama’s Story of Race and Inheritance:

That the POWER [buy black] campaign sputtered said something about . . . Questions of competition, decisions forced by a market economy and
majoritarian rule; issues of power.

It was this unyielding reality — that whites were not simply phantoms to be expunged from our dreams but were an active and varied fact of our everyday lives.that finally explained how [black] nationalism could thrive as an emotion and flounder as a program. [pp. 201–202]

Yes we can! become part of this dream from his father answering “questions of competition, decisions forced by a market economy and majoritarian rule” with our competitiveness reined in, our economy tied in knots, and our “majoritarian” habits of deciding by voting on things held in check.

Sailer cites it accurately as O. giving up on people power through community organization.  The question is how he looked at the market and the vote.  My implied argument or allegation is that we know now that he’s enamored of neither, unless you dismiss his by-any-means-necessary approach to his health legislation as anomalous.